7-Zip 26.01

The developer of the open source archiver application 7-Zip, Igor Pavlov, has released the new version of the application 26.00.

The new version 26.00 is available on the official website – repository. You can check the version of the application you are using from the path Help – About 7-Zip

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Here is a list of significant changes compared to the last version

7-Zip 26.01 changelog:

• linux version of 7-Zip can use huge pages (2 MB pages). It can increase compression speed for 10% for 7z/xz/LZMA/LZMA2 compression.
• new -spo[d|c|r] switch specifies the path generation mode for the output directory for archive extraction. The output directory path is generated from the path specified in the -o{dir_path} switch and the name of the archive being unpacked.
• -spod : for Linux/Posix/macOS: -o{dir_path} specifies the direct path to the output directory. The asterisk (*) character in {dir_path} will not be replaced by the archive name.
• -spoc : 7-Zip will concatenate the path specified in -o{dir_path} with the archive name to form the final path to the output directory.
• -spor : 7-Zip will replace asterisk (*) character in the path specified in the -o{dir_path} with the archive name. This is the default option.
• some bugs were fixed.

• Download 7-Zip 26.01 (2026-04-27)

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